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Horace Mann School Sex Scandal Involves Tiger Woods-Impersonating College Counselor

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Posted by    Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 11:00am

One of New York City’s most elite institutions, Horace Mann School, is now plagued with another sex-filled scandal.

The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has these details:

This one is a revenge porn scenario allegedly involving Canh Oxelson, the director of the exclusive school’s college counseling unit. Police arrested Oxelson, 42, this...

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Op-ed: Women in College Should be Husband Hunting

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Posted by    Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 9:30am

The last time a woman wrote something like this it set off a firestorm. Let’s see if Susan Patton’s new piece at the Wall Street Journal gets the same reaction.

Susan Patton: A Little Valentine’s Day Straight Talk

Another Valentine’s Day. Another night spent ordering in sushi for one and mooning over “Downton...

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Harvard Prof Moonlights as an Internet Sheriff

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Posted by    Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 8:00am

When Benjamin Edelman was a Harvard sophomore, he earned $400 an hour as an expert witness for the National Football League against unauthorized Web broadcasting. As a senior, the American Civil Liberties Union paid him $300 an hour to oppose the government’s use of information filters in libraries.

Bloomberg’s John Hechinger h...

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The New Math: IRS Rules on Adjunct Hours Calculations

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Posted by    Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 5:00pm

In an attempt to clarify the byzantine rules related to Obamacare work hour calculations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has just released its final guidance on the approach to be taken by colleges and universities.

The ruling impacts both adjunct faculty and student workers significantly.

The upshot of the complicated regulation from the...

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Obama – How About Free Highspeed Internet For All Students?

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Posted by    Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 3:30pm

Well, he has to pay off the college crowd for voting for him somehow. They certainly aren’t being rewarded with jobs.

The College Fix reports.

Obama’s Latest Giveaway – Free Highspeed Internet For All Students

Did you know highspeed internet access is a civil right?

Students deserve it.

In reality, here’s President Barack Obama’s latest way...

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Australian video offers gore-filled warning about skipping school

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Posted by    Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 2:00pm

It looks like Americans aren’t the only ones struggling to keep their kids interested in school.

The Learn for Life Foundation, a non-profit organization established to promote the importance of education in Western Australia, recently sponsored a video to warn about the dangers of truancy.

That the organization selected to have the video produced...

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A Record Number of College Grads are Living in Their Parents’ Basements

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Posted by    Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 12:30pm

As Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge points out, this is a true measure of the economy. I have a question, is living in the basement part of hope or change?

The True State Of The Economy: Record Number Of College Graduates Live In Their Parents’ Basement

Scratch one more bullish thesis for the...

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U. Arkansas Researchers Warn of Dangers Drinking Ice Water

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Posted by    Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 11:00am

With most of the country in the midst of the “Polar Vortex”, a cup of hot tea or cocoa is probably preferable to ice water for many Americans.

However, that did not stop a team at an Arkansas school from spending valuable research time and money in an attempt to identify the...

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Yale student offers an apology to Sochi

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Posted by    Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 9:30am

Because of the way Russia’s leaders and bureaucrats have operated, Yale University student Tyler Blackmon wanted their Olympics to be a failure.

However, he has now changed his tune:

From the country’s overt persecution of gay citizens to the mass slaughter of stray dogs in preparation for the Games, Russia’s string of abuses...

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U. Arizona Class Requires Students to Participate in Condom Olympics

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Posted by    Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 8:00am

Naturally. Because this is what the glory of the Olympics and sportsmanship are all about, right?

Alec Torres of National Review reports.

Class at University of Arizona Requires Participation in Condom Olympics

Are you a student who doesn’t like exams or papers? Well, if you attend the University of Arizona, take Professor William Simmons’...

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Harvard Student: I am not a “Model Minority”

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Posted by    Friday, February 14, 2014 at 6:30pm

Bernadette N. Lim, a Harvard student working on degrees in human evolutionary biology and women/gender/sexuality studies, pens a fascinating editorial on being an Asian-American at an Ivy League school.

I am a third generation Asian-American woman at Harvard, and I despise living under the impression that I belong to the “model minority.”...

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Missouri Lawmaker – College Presidents Should Answer for Schools’ Success or Failure

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Posted by    Friday, February 14, 2014 at 5:00pm

What a revolutionary idea. Of course, this is the way it has been done in the private sector since well, forever.

Alex Stuckey of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

College presidents should answer for schools’ success or failure, lawmaker says

JEFFERSON CITY • Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, doesn’t want to close Missouri colleges and...

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The 10 Colleges With The Most US Athletes In Sochi’s Olympics

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Posted by    Friday, February 14, 2014 at 3:30pm

With all eyes on Sochi, Russia for the Olympics, it is interesting to see which colleges have sent the most students to complete.

While all of the American athletes in Sochi can connect over a shared nationality, many teammates can bond about something more specific — their alma mater.

Whether they were classmates...

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UC Riverside Business School Slashes Tuition

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Posted by    Friday, February 14, 2014 at 2:00pm

Not a bad idea and we can fully expect to see more of this in the coming years. Come on down and get your MBA, everything must go!

Sean Nealon of UCR Today reports.

Tuition Breaks Offered at Business School

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — The University of California, Riverside School of Business Administration has...

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UCLA Student Sets Record Straight on Bogus Racism Claims

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Posted by    Friday, February 14, 2014 at 12:30pm

College Insurrection recently shared a video in which some of  University of California – Los Angeles black students decried that  the school was not diverse enough.

We assumed that assertion was preposterous then; UCLA student Josh Hedtke shows that it also invalid.

….In 2012 in California, the total percentage of the black population...

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Kangaroo Courts – Update on Campus Judicial Systems

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Posted by    Friday, February 14, 2014 at 11:00am

College Insurrection readers know how bad things can get for students who are accused of sexual misconduct.

Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed provides an update from Virginia.

Classrooms, Courts or Neither?

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Since the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights affirmed in its 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter that colleges should...

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MIT sends email by mistake, erroneously telling some students they were admitted

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Posted by    Friday, February 14, 2014 at 9:30am

There was a big glitch at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology email system, and some hopeful scholars may be in for a big disappointment.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent an e-mail to prospective students, erroneously telling them in a line at the bottom that they had been admitted.

The university doesn’t know...

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U. Michigan Students Learn How to be Kinky, Engage in BDSM

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Posted by    Friday, February 14, 2014 at 8:00am

These skills should come in handy for your future career… in porn.

The College Fix reports.

University of Michigan Teaches Students How To Be Kinky, Engage in BDSM

An event held at the University of Michigan on Wednesday night taught students how to be kinky and engage in Bondage, Dominance, Sadism and Masochism.

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Student Loans are a Drag on the American Economy

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Posted by    Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 6:30pm

Josh Freedman is a social and economic policy expert with the New America Foundation.

He recently published the second in a series of articles for Forbes focusing on how American families are now paying for college. His second part addresses a key component of the “Higher Education Bubble” – the easy access...

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Colleges Raked in $34 billion in Donations in 2013

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Posted by    Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 5:00pm

That’s not a bad haul considering the state of the economy. Then again, Americans are the most generous people in the world.

Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reports.

Deeper Pockets

Donors gave about $34 billion to North American colleges in 2013, according to an annual survey by the Council for Aid to Education.

That’s...

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Greatest lines never uttered by college admissions counselors

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Posted by    Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 3:30pm

College admissions officers seem so nice and polite.

However, this seems to be a thin veneer. One counselor recently sen an e-mail with the subject line “The Greatest Line I never Said,” asked others admissions professionals to share things they really, really wanted to say to students but didn’t.

Here are some of...

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The College Conservative Talks to Steven Crowder

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Posted by    Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 2:00pm

Thomas Novelly of the College Conservative recently had a chance to interview conservative comedian Steven Crowder. Read an excerpt below.

A Chat with Steven Crowder

Last Tuesday, Hillsdale College’s chapter of Young American’s For Freedom was proud to host Canadian-born comedian, former Fox News contributor, television and film actor, CPAC 2011 Master of...

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